Ulises Cortés

Ulises Cortés

Ulises Cortés is a Full-Professor and Researcher of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) since 1982 (tenured since 1988 and habilitated as Full-Professor since 2006) working on several areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Software Department including knowledge acquisition for and concept formation in knowledge-based systems, as well as on machine learning and in autonomous intelligent agents .
Since 2017 Professor Cortés is the scientific manager of the High-Performance Artificial Intelligence group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Since 1989 Professor Cortés and his group have been applying their work in Artificial Intelligence to Environmental Sciences in special to Wastewater Treatment Plants with the financial support of CICyT and CIRIT and the European Union. He is a co-founder of SISLTECH and member of its Board of Directors from 2011 until 2016.